Nation briefs: Police: Son kills mother, himself at assisted living center

The Associated Press

Published 4:15 pm, Sunday, October 25, 2015

VOORHEES, N.J.— Authorities say a man shot and killed his elderly mother before turning the gun on himself at an assisted living facility in southern New Jersey.

Police were called to Genesis HealthCare Voorhees Center in Voorhees at 5:44 p.m. Sunday.

The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said 62-year-old George Bullet III was visiting his 85-year-old mother, Andree Bullet. Authorities said the mother and son had eaten dinner together, and afterward, George Bullet III, of Lumberton, went to his car. He returned and shot his mother. Authorities said a nurse walked in as he shot and killed himself.

Nobody else was hurt in the shooting.

Police are continuing to investigate.

The facility is home to patients receiving short- and long-term care and those receiving cardiac management and dementia and Alzheimer’s care.

Woman faces 2nd-degree murder charges in parade crash

STILLWATER, Okla. — A woman faces second-degree murder charges after authorities said she plowed a car into the crowd at an Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing four people, including a toddler.

Adacia Chambers, a 25-year-old resident of the college town, was arrested after the Saturday crash on a driving while under the influence charge, and Stillwater police said Sunday she was being held on four additional counts of second-degree murder.

Police did not elaborate on the new charges in a statement announcing them, and a spokesman did not return repeated messages seeking comment. Officials with the Payne County district attorney’s office couldn’t immediately be reached.

Chambers’ attorney Tony Coleman said that his client may suffer from a mental illness. He also said she did not smell of alcohol when he met her hours after the crash. Police are awaiting blood tests to determine if she was impaired by drugs or alcohol.

NYPD: Gun that may have been used in officer’s death found

NEW YORK — Divers searching the Harlem River recovered a gun “consistent” with the weapon used to kill a police officer during a foot chase in Manhattan, the New York Police Department said Sunday.

Chief of Manhattan detectives William Aubry said the weapon was found around 3 a.m. Sunday. The gun will be tested for fingerprints and DNA, as well as test fired, to determine whether it is the same .40-caliber Glock pistol used to shoot Officer Randolph Holder in the head.

“That firearm is consistent with the firearm that we were looking for,” Aubry said.

The police also shut down part of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive on Manhattan’s East Side — the area of the shooting — for a few hours Sunday morning as they conducted a ground search. About 100 police officers volunteered to do the work, especially aimed at finding the fatal bullet.

Holder and his partner had responded to a report of shots fired near a public housing development in East Harlem on Tuesday night. When they arrived, a man said his bike had been stolen at gunpoint and the thief fled.

Authorities: Man killed in Georgia shootout, 2 deputies hurt

TALKING ROCK, Ga.— A man who had been arguing with two hunters in north Georgia was fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement agents, authorities said Sunday. Two deputies were wounded.

John Harley Turner, 36, of Talking Rock, died after a shootout erupted Saturday night after the dispute between Turner and the hunters, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.

Turner repeatedly threatened the hunters with a pistol for being near his property in Pickens County, the GBI said. The hunters called 911 and deputies responded to Turner’s home, according to the emailed statement.

When deputies arrived, Turner screamed at approaching deputies and pointed his pistol at them, the GBI said.

Stancil said five deputies and two troopers ultimately shot Turner with non-lethal “beanbag rounds” from a shotgun. But Turner, who is white, continued shooting at the deputies and wounded Sgt. Travis Curran, 37, and deputy Todd Musgrave, 44, both white, according to authorities.